/ Climbers and race

As this subject is such a hardy perennial of UKC, people might be interested to read for free this article published on the subject http://www.alpinist.com/doc/_print/ALP40/40-wired in Alpinist called "Exploring the Adventure Gap". It's an American journalist writing for a American magazine so the deals understandably with the US, and in particular with African Americans. It does though kind of support what I think many of us presume; that class is as an important component of the discussion as race when asking who climbs and how they get in to climbing.